The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ringby Howard Shore I couldn't begin to guess at how many times I've listened to this music. The soundtrack came out a few weeks before the movie did, and you can bet that I bought the CD as soon as I could. There were four promotional … Continue reading Listening to Things: The Fellowship of the Ring original score by Howard Shore
Sunday Sum-Up: February 12, 2023
Apparently, there is some sort of (American) football game going on? The Super Bowl, I guess? I don't know. I'm going to see a documentary at the indie theater downtown. Now, if this whole thing was about Superb Owls, I'd be in all the way. \I watched the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (directed … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: February 12, 2023
Listening to Things: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon original score by Tan Dun
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon original score composed and conducted by Tan DunShanghai Symphony Orchestra, feat. Yo-Yo Ma, cello Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) was one of a trio of wuxia films I watched repeatedly after college, the other two being Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Hero is my favorite of … Continue reading Listening to Things: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon original score by Tan Dun
Listening to the Weird Stuff
If you didn’t like Nirvana, were you really a 90s kid? Hi. It’s me again. The person who doesn’t care for the popular thing. I don’t have anything against the popular thing, it’s just not for me. Repeatedly. Through the decades. Reading Alex Ross’s book Listen to This has me thinking about music and where … Continue reading Listening to the Weird Stuff
Sunday Sum-Up: February 5, 2023
I finally went to see a movie in a theater this week. It's the first time I've done that since I saw Dune in 2021. There just hadn't been anything in the local theaters I'd wanted to see (I usually found out about the handful of films I wanted to see after they'd left), so … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: February 5, 2023
January Summary, February Preview
I tend to read a lot in January, if only because there isn't much going on in the first- and often coldest- month of the year. In January 2022, I read twenty books. This January, I read twelve things. I'm not bothered by this, as there were a few books I did not finish, a … Continue reading January Summary, February Preview
Sunday Sum-Up: January 29, 2023
I had a busy week at work last week, thanks to a tedious but necessary annual task that always takes several days to complete. We finished it yesterday, but while that's all done next week promises to be a busy one, too. At least Monday and Tuesday will be busy. After that, I think things … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: January 29, 2023
Sunday Sum-Up: January 22, 2023
Quick sum-up this time, as I have a few things going on at the moment. We've had a couple of days of snow this week, though neither day gave us very much-- a couple of inches at most. Enough to be pretty, but not enough to cause real problems. Which I'm fine with. They got … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: January 22, 2023
Sunday Sum-Up: January 15, 2022
It's been a quiet and cozy week around here. I'm still enjoying the vibes provided by the new living room lamp, and I'm finally getting around to finishing up some Netflix shows and watching a few movies I've had in my queue for a long time. So I finished up Wednesday (which was fun, though … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: January 15, 2022
Best Books of 2022
Now that we're nearly halfway through January, I should probably get around to writing my 2022 wrap-ups, huh? So let's get to it. I read 160 books last year. I gave seven new-to-me books five stars, but that doesn't mean they were necessarily new favorites. Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing was incredibly … Continue reading Best Books of 2022
Traveling in Books 